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Celebrating 30 Years of the Great Lakes Aradhana Committee Celebrating 30 years of the Great Lakes Aradhana Committee April-May 2015 1 The Sarovar Team President Vice President General Secretary Sankar Krishnan Sriram Ganapthy Sivaram Muthusubramaniyan Welcome Treasurer Marketing/Cultural Affairs Corporate Affairs Charulatha Shankar Ganga Rajkumar S. Ramamoorthy Trustee Kalyan Ramamurthy 2 Welcome to the Indo-American Festival of Performing Arts—Sarovar 2015! It is my pleasure to invite you to participate in a wonderful month of cultural enrichment and fellowship in Southeast Michigan. The Oakland University Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance is hap- py to be working with the Great Lakes Aradhana Committee, an exempla- ry non-profit organization committed to preserving, presenting and pro- moting Indian art forms in the Metro Detroit area. Through this collabora- tion, we are offering exciting opportunities for all festival participants. We are thrilled to host Sarovar on the campus of Oakland University. The term 'Sarovar' is a Sanskrit term for Lake - signifying the Great Lakes. Sarovar will showcase an outstanding line up of highly respected per- formers who will share their art forms during this month-long series of events. This festival also presents a great opportunity for Oakland Univer- sity students to explore the rich cultural traditions of India and develop an understanding of Indian music. 'Indo-American Festival of Performing Welcome Arts - Sarovar 2015' promises to be a truly unique event with an out- standing line-up featuring traditional vocal and instrumental music as well as fusion music. I am personally excited to be part of Sarovar and am looking forward to seeing you at the festival. Sincerely, Mark Stone Coordinator of World Music Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance Oakland University 3 The GLACEvolution Sankar Krishnan (Auburn Hills, MI) As Great lakes Aradhana Committee (GLAC) celebrates its fifth year of Sarovar, Sankar Krishnan, President of GLAC and a connoisseur of performing arts shares the evolution of GLAC in this exciting interview. A portion of it is republished from Sarovar 2012: Can you tell us the origin of GLAC? GLAC was the result of a dream of a few music enthusiasts who felt the need to promote Indian culture through spreading of carnatic music to the local community. A beginning was made with celebration of saint Thyagaraja, one of the greatest composers of carnatic music from 17th centu- ry. We have not changed the format of this event even now. The day starts with group singing of 5 gems of the great composer followed by individual singing by local children. After a free lunch prepared and lovingly served by the local community, a grand concert follows which is usually by a visiting artist from India. The entire event is free and I must acknowledge the two factors that enable us to organize this- the willingness of Paschima Kasi temple to provide auditorium free of cost and the amazing generosity of the classical music concert lovers in Flint in under- writing the expenses of the artists. Please tell us more about the formative years. Encouraged by the large attendance at the Flint festival, we began organizing carnatic music concert by touring artists from India and other highly gifted artists from North America. We featured almost all top artists such as K V Naraya- naswamy, Flute N Ramani, T N Seshagopalan, Bombay Jayasree, Sudha Raghunathan, Sanjay Subramaniam, T M Krishna and many others. During the initial years, GLAC operated as a subset of Michigan Tamil Sangam (MTS). With boom in auto and IT industry, the demographics of MTS changed considerably and it had to cater to the tastes and needs of a diverse population. Gradually, GLAC cut its umbilical cord from Tamil Sangam and became an independent entity. What are some of the challenges the organization faced in the initial years? Carnatic music has always struggled to draw popular crowd and this issue has not changed much even today. Large ex- odus of people after individual singing and lunch during festival, rapidly rising fees for concerts demanded by national sponsors of artists, reluctance of local community to pay to listen to a music concert, increasing unwillingness of artists to permit recording of the concert which used to defray some of the cost by sale of CDs, rising cost of auditorium rental, inconsistent support by local music teachers and parents of their students the list goes on!!! When did your personal involvement start in the organization? I used to attend almost all GLAC events and concerts since I moved to Detroit in 1998. I was very fortunate that my wife and two daughters also loved this form of music and we used to enjoy going to the concerts together just as we used to do while in India. I remember a concert in 2005 by a very well-known artist and there were about 25 people in the au- dience! At the end of the concert, one of the organizers approached me and asked if I would be interested in being part of it. The burn factor had caught on many of the die-hard enthusiastic organizers and a completely new team was being formed and I readily accepted the role of Secretary. I would consider 2006 as the beginning of GLAC- Version 2.0- and upgrade from the previous years. To start with, we registered the organization as a non-profit one. In order to bring predictability in our cash flow, we started a subscription- based model encouraging people to become members for a guaranteed set of 4 concerts in a year. We established a web site and started mass communication gradually moving away from word-of-mouth marketing of concerts. We gave visibility of future programs so that people could plan in advance. We created an organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Our new model was a great success and in five years we had reached a fairly healthy state in terms of membership base and capital. How did the idea of Sarovar festival come about? Towards the end of 2010, I was attending an Arangetram by the student of Vidwan Shashikiran. During dinner, Shri Shashikiran introduced me to Prof. Mark Stone, Department of Music, Theatre and dance at Oakland University and 4 mooted the idea of a music festival in Detroit by collaboration of OU and GLAC. So, the seeds of this festival were sown by Shri Shashikiran and we sincerely acknowledge this. Fortunately, when we followed up with Prof Mark Stone a few days later his enthusiasm had not diminished and he locked-in University facility for three days in May, 2011 for us to conduct the festival. We had 8 months to plan the event and with our new capital base and a high- energy new committee member, Sriram Ganapathy with deep marketing expertise and an MBA degree we had a head-start and as they say the rest is history! Please tell us about Sarovar 2015? We are extremely proud of the package we have put together for Sarovar 2015. It is the result of intensive collab- orative effort with my team and also taking input from our partner at Oakland University. Over 30+ artists from India and across US and Canada will give a wide variety of performance such as lecture- demonstration, percus- sion jugalbandhi, fusion, pure traditional Carnatic style vocal and instrumental concerts. There is a good balance between performing youth artists from North America and visiting professional artists from India while not ig- noring aspiring young children from local music schools. We have included a panel discussion with the youth where you can expect to hear them give views on like what can be done to improve the presentation of our style of music to a wider audience etc. I have heard you say that GLAC is now on Version 3.0. Can you please explain it? Sure! As I mentioned earlier, GLAC made a quantum leap in 2011 with increase in membership and recognition as a brand. When we analyzed that success, we found that much of it was due to the partnership we had established with institutions. We collectively agreed that the way to move forward is to collaborate with like-minded organi- zations, institutions, and even individuals who had a passion to promote our culture. We introduced the concept of white label. The Papanasam Sivan festival or the Annamayya festival are great examples of the success of the white label model. Our collaboration with Washtenaw Community college brought some very interesting pro- grams. Similarly, this year we collaborated with Detroit Arab Museum and introduced our music to a hugely ap- preciative western audience. I could not hold my tears when we heard a comment from an Arab- American- “I had to leave Palestine when I was 6 and haven’t heard such a beautiful concert in the last 60 years I have been in the US. The concert reminded me of my days back home and was the best time I’ve had”. So, all these initiatives are part of GLAC 3.0 where we are creating an ecosystem which I think will continue for a few more years. Can you tell us about your team? I’m extremely privileged to lead a passionate team of people. They all come from various professional back- grounds and what brings us all together is the common passion for music. In fact, we are one big family and we have been working together for a very long time. Each one of us know exactly what our role is and we pretty much carry it out independently. We have conference calls almost every month to check the status and the entire planner spreadsheets are updated on Google docs.
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